Problems with the Design of Short Drop-Height Soft Flow Chutes
Chutes for loading and unloading conveyors are of critical importance to bulk material handling industries. Although seemingly simple, if a comparatively blasé approach is followed in the design of a chute, there is a high risk that, just as with other – more complex – equipment in a given plant, the chute could become a bottleneck by not efficiently passing material from one system to the next.